Patrick Schwarzenegger (White Lotus) will star opposite Phoebe Dynevor in Beach Read, 20th Century Studios' adaptation of the 2020 bestselling novel by Emily Henry, Deadline reported. Yulin Kuang, co-writer of Netflix's People We Meet on Vacation, is directing from her own script, with Neal H. Moritz producing via his Original Films. Karina Rahardja will exec produce. Sarah Shepard and Catherine Hughes are overseeing for 20th.
Beach Read follows January Andrews, "a successful romance novelist who struggles with grief and writer's block after her father's death and the discovery of secrets he's long kept hidden," Deadline wrote. "While spending the summer in his Michigan beach house to prepare it for sale, she unexpectedly reconnects with Gus Everett, an author who was once her rival in college. Both creatively stuck, they agree to a writing challenge over the summer, swapping literary genres while promising that there will be no romance between them."
